Eero feels bored

Eero’s assigned expression is ‘bored’ (‘kyllästynyt’). He does not manage to complete his drawing, but does create a sort of minimalist face, with eyes, a hair line, two (misaligned) ears, and an open mouth, all surrounding the nose hole on the canvas. He also adds three backwards ‘Z’s, in an attempt to convey his assigned emotion.

Focusing on the backwards ‘Z’s in Eero’s drawing, Jaakko vacillates between guessing ‘sleepy’ and ‘drowsy’, before settling on ‘drowsy’. Eero attempts to give Jaakko a hint by saying that the opposite of his emotion would be ‘eistynyt’. This is not actually a word – he has simply replaced the first part of the word, ‘kyllä’ (which, on its own, means ‘yes’) with ‘ei’ (which means ‘no’).

Jaakko acknowledges that Eero likely had the most difficult emotion to draw, and initially awards him joint fourth place. However, when Eero pouts in disappointment, Jaakko bumps him up to joint third place, but warns him that begging will no longer work on him.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by Karl Craven)